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Questions & Answers
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What advice would you give to a customer looking to hire a company like yours?
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Communication is key , for smaller companies like myself handling everything from quotes, paperwork, repairs , delivery, sending bills and doing the work is very consuming. Before I started this I wondered why sometimes I wouldn't get a call back ... then I realized 24hrs in a day isn't enough and scaling and finding good helpers while trying to build a system can at times cause a person to forget to follow up or not write things down because im in a rush . So sometimes it'd not that a person is lazy but im speaking from my experience
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What is the most common type of project or service your company provides?
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Currently lawn mowing and recurring maintenance, typically monthly contracts to constantly maintain the whole property every visit and those prices vary from $125.00 to $350.00 or more for extremely large or complex properties
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In what ways is your company environmentally friendly?
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All my yard waste is recycled into mulch .
Some branches, dead flowers or bushes are actually used and compost for garden beds
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How We Charge For Our Services
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Landscape - Install or Plant
- $125.00 to $200.00 per hour (per person) plus materials
Client receives a quote , we walk through everything and discuss what they are getting and why it's priced that way
Materials: typically priced zero mark up
Distance to locations on property is always considered
Labor
Prices depend on how many flower beds prep work and attention to detail the client is looking for .
Prices are estimates only
In many cases properties are done in stages unless specified by client
A break down of all work, materials and labor is included in every invoice giving the client to plug and play what they want or don't want . Every client agrees to whay they want or don't want before hand stating they asked for removal or a certain service or product .
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Lawn or Garden - Pull Weeds
- $55.00 to $85.00 per hour
Maintained property are typically easier to weed by hand and prefer moving clients to a higher tier instead of a basic mow , edge and blow off property.
$55.00- $85.00 depending on property size and state . Upgraded packages are typically cheaper because the weeding is being done weekly with the mowing
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Leaf Cleanup and Removal
- $50.00 to $85.00 per hour for raking and bagging
- $120.00 to $220.00 fixed fee for 1/4 acre lot (most typical)
- $150.00 to $250.00 fixed fee for 1/2 acre lot
- $175.00 to $300.00 fixed fee for 1 acre lot
- $50.00 to $85.00 per hour for curbside vacuuming or bag pick-up
- $120.00 to $220.00 fixed fee for 1/8 acre lot
Fall and spring clean ups are charged at a flat rate and it difficult to price per hour but this system left me with little choice.
New clients prices are mid range compared to competitors but im not cheap or expensive. Typically clean everything up and throughout the winter months I schedule to come biweekly or monthly, blow out the flower beds and leaves into the grass and mulch it up vs a large bill this is more practical. You are looking at $125.00 to $500.00 and that's just a rough number . Typically doing multiple trips on the lawn to mulch everything up and gas is expensive so it factors into quotes that's just the reality of things
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Mulch - Deliver or Spread
- $95.00 to $120.00 per cubic yard (material and local delivery)
- $65.00 to $80.00 per cubic yard (material only)
- $120.00 to $150.00 per cubic yard (material, delivery, and spreading)
Delivery fees are by the mile and distance, a separate number calculated by distance normal $50 to $75 per trip
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Post Construction Clean-up
- $75.00 to $100.00 per hour
- $1.25 to $1.50 per square foot
Size and scope of work , every job is different and has varying degrees of difficulty
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Property Maintenance & Repair
- $65.00 to $85.00 per hour plus parts
Giving a true answer is impossible some parts can be 1k plus
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